dust to dust
Back to earth
Dust to dust is a phrase from Christian burial rites—"ashes to ashes, dust to dust"—acknowledging that the body returns to the earth from which it came.
The expression appears in reflections on mortality and the transience of physical existence: In the end, we're all dust to dust.
It can also describe the complete dissolution of something: The empire crumbled, dust to dust.
- ashesBurned matter's residue
- mortalityState of eventual death
- memento moriArtistic death reminder
- mortal coilTurmoil of human existence
- graveSerious and worrying
six feet under · funeral · earth · decay · burial · last rites · Genesis · scripture · Book of Common Prayer · death · cremation · remains · soil · end · beginning · cycle · return · circle of life
- mortalitydeath, death knell, deceased, death rate, death acceptance
- proverbsproverbs, sayings, maxims, adages, aphorisms
- endingsending, the end, finish, close, final
dust to dusteternal life
Unending conscious existence
everlasting · immortality · forever and ever · imperishable · undying
dust to dustresurrection
Revival from death
life everlasting · eternal salvation · heaven · paradise · ascension
dust to dustalpha and omega
The complete extent
rebirth · reincarnation · phoenix rising · palingenesis · world without end
dust, dusts, dusty, dustier, dustiest, dustiness, duster, dusters, dusting